Minnows Practice Plan: Day 2 Week 2 – Streamline & Backstroke

100 IM Kick2 x 25 Position 11Question of the Day: What happens if you roll on your belly to look at the wall on backstroke at a swim meet?Y = 50 FLY K FINSN = 50 BK

A: You get disqualified!<

3 streamlines. 1 at surface, 1 at bottom, 1 in middle (depth)

Focus on getting the swimmers to fall underwater first, plant their feet on the wall, and grow in a straight line off the wall into streamline. Goal is to travel in a straight line.

3 x SL + “Flex”

Hold SL throughout, and push off with feet flexed, legs straight and held together, only feet are turning out.This is to get in habit of flexing or flaring feet wide.

4 x 25 Backstroke. Pick one of three locations to SL from each 25, top, middle, bottom, cannot do same thing twice in a row.

1 x Challenge

4 x 25 SL + LIFT and FLEX, float, then FR rest of the way.

1 x challenge.